Bankman-Fried to get second trial on bank fraud, bribery counts
[1/2] Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto currency exchange FTX, is escorted out of the Magistrate Court building in Nassau, Bahamas December 21, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo
NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday granted a request from prosecutors to try some of their charges against Sam Bankman-Fried in a second trial next year separate from his scheduled Oct. 2 trial on fraud charges over the collapse of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
Reporting by Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in Bengaluru and by Luc Cohen in New York; editing by Jason Neely, Elaine Hardcastle and Leslie Adler
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